The Federal Government is ramping up its National Broadband Network (NBN) push with the announcement of a <i>Realising Our Broadband Future</i> forum to be held in Sydney on December 10 and 11.
Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Nick Minchin has used the publication of a new report into the productivity of high speed broadband to reiterate his call for a full-cost benefit analysis of the NBN.
Tasmania-based Aurora Energy is looking for contractors to join a panel to help roll out fibre optic network extensions as the state leads the way in the construction of the National Broadband Network.
Telstra is unlikely to come to a pure equity swap deal with the NBN due to concerns over a lack uncertainty over the value of the NBN’s assets, Telstra CFO John Stanhope has said.
The Obama administration's interest in the National Broadband Network ([[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/NBN|NBN|Computerworld :: NBN]]) continues, with the US president's key telecommunications advisor meeting an Australian analyst earlier this month to discuss the $43 billion plan.
The coalition will try to delay any legislation that aims to force the structural separation of Telstra (ASX:TLS).
A not-for-profit organisation that provides computers and broadband Internet to Melbourne’s public housing residents has called for affordable National Broadband Network (NBN) access.
It is scheduled to be handed over to the Government in February next year, but by then the National Broadband Network implementation study's findings will have already become a moot point.
As the National Broadband Network (NBN) construction chugs along in Tasmania, debate on the mainland continues as to whether laying the fibre optic cables underground is more advantageous than putting them in existing overhead infrastructure.
Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy and shadow communications minister Nick Minchin recently squared off at the CommsDay summit in Melbourne on the Telstra separation and the NBN. As usual the politicians had sharply varying views and squawked load and long. Here are the key, cracker-sized squawks from each minister on the issues.
The company in charge of rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania has announced Corning Cable Systems Pty Ltd will provide fibre optic cable for the construction of the infrastructure project.
Identity and knowing who governments are dealing with has emerged as the top priority over the next 12 months for South Australia's CIO, Andrew Mills.
A gated community in Queensland will be the first brownfield development to roll out its own fibre to the home (FTTH) network connection.
The Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia, Scott Ludlam has questioned whether the Federal Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) plan is “flying blind”.
NBNCo chief executive Mike Quigley has told a Senate Select Committee that it is too early to confirm whether wholesale prices for the National Broadband Network ([[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/NBN|NBN|Computerworld :: NBN]]) will be the same across the country.